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69 - Kennedy“Are you sitting with us today Luna?” Danny doesn’t let me linger too long with Bennet.“I guess so.” I shrug. I know Ryker said he wanted me with him at meals last night, but I wasn’t sure if that was an invitation or a demand or just to get me to talk to him.“Perfect!” Danny wraps his arm around me and I giggle as we start walking. Naturally, Ryker growls at him and he ignores it.I’m sure they’re having a conversation over the mindlink, but for the first time it doesn’t bother me. I know Danny is giving him a hard time about me and I’m okay with it. What I’m really interested to see is how Ryker acts with me in front of his pack members. He was unsure and timid last night, but that is not how this Alpha is with his pack members. So far he’s made it clear I’m not important and for the most part I am ignored and left alone. There are only a few females who actively give me dirty looks, but that is as far as they have gone.I stiffen as we enter the breakfast room and
70 - KennedyIt’s official. I’m in the twilight zone. Yesterday I was hiding out in the packhouse avoiding everyone because I wasn’t sure who was allowed to talk to me and who would be punished if I even looked in their direction and bored out of my mind to wanting to get a portable electric fence to set a perimeter around myself for personal space.Danny and Bennet are so far up my ass, I’m sure we will fuse as one soon. I have only gone from the library to the bathroom. We have even had lunch here. Bennet was nice enough to start a small fire in the fireplace for me. I’m not freezing, but the little bit of warmths is comforting and the sound is a great background noise for us.I look over my shoulder to the black leather couch in the library. “Don’t you have an actual job to do?” I ask Danny who is flipping through a magazine, humming through his nose. He sounds like a kazoo. “I figured as the ‘lead warrior’ you should be leading something.”“Not when I need to get to know my Luna
71 - RykerI meet up with Josh who comes up from the South side of the reported attack. Danny took the East flank and I should see him soon across from me. We have corralled the five rogues who attacked a group of our teens running practice patrols. There is another layer of wolves waiting in the tree line behind us. I want at least one to question, but I won’t be sorry if they all die here right now.The fact that they got close enough to hit that line has my wolf and I raging. Our patrols are flawless and layered in a way that shouldn’t be predictable unless you know how we organize them. It wouldn’t be the first time a wolf from an acquired pack tries to bring us down from the inside, but now that an innocent pup has been injured, badly, these motherf*ckers are going down painfully.I haven’t seen the pup yet, but from what I heard he’s in bad shape. At least three of them were attacking him when his friends stepped in and called us. If the surrounding snow is anything to go by
72 - RykerWe move straight to my room, there is no question of her being alone now, or ever really. Not after last night and waking up with her this morning. We can’t be apart from her. My wolf is whimpering at her fragile state and I struggle to ignore him. I have to help her and he is powerless to do anything.“Remove her clothes Alpha.” Our lead healer calls out as she walks into the room. “You need to get her warm. Under the covers, now.”I don’t even hesitate. Bennet moves to help but my wolf lets out a snarl. He’s still convinced there is something romantic going on between them. He looks hurt, but I can’t focus on that right now.“Greta, help please.” She jumps in without a word. All of our focus has to be on keeping her alive right now. “What else can I do?” I look at the healer.“It would be helpful and makes things go faster if she was marked.”“NO! We still don’t know if it will hurt her. I don’t want to make things worse.” I slide into my bed, while the healer an
73 - KennedyMy head is pounding. Did I drink last night? No, I don’t think I’ve had anything since I moved. My eyes are so heavy, I want to open them, but they are glued shut. I am so comfortable though, I may not move for a little while longer. The darkness is calling my name. Just a few more minutes. I take a deep breath and sink into the soft blanket wrapped around me.The next time I’m conscious I feel tingles everywhere. “Hey, little lamb. Can you hear me?”“Mmhmm?” I know that low rumbling voice, and shouldn’t like it as much as I do. But, I don’t remember why I think that. I take another deep breath. His rosemary and mint scent surrounds me. He shouldn’t be here with me. Another breath. Maybe I’m still dreaming. He wants someone like Amy, not me. Breathe in, breathe out. It’s so nice.“Kennedy?”“What?” I whisper out. My voice sounds like gravel.He chuckles low, so close to my ear I get goosebumps as a shiver wracks my body. “Open those eyes for me, beautiful.”I whine.
74 - KennedyI don’t really understand the change, but I’m also not going to complain. Ever since they found me in the forest almost frozen to death, Ryker and Bennet have come to some kind of understanding. I’m still not alone…ever. That would be too much to ask. But I have started training with Greta again. It’s too f*cking cold outside for my thin skin, but I do get to go to the gym at the training center. I hadn’t realized I had lost so much weight and muscle until she kicked my ass and then made fun of me for it. I can feel myself getting stronger everyday though and that is helping with my mood.I have also gotten completely caught up with classes and I’m ready to start a light load of business courses so I can follow in my parent’s and Aunt Beth’s footsteps. Being so far away from my mom’s studio, and being in the center of the largest wolf pack I know of, I won’t be training any humans any time soon. But, I know that The main source of income is construction and buildin
75 - KennedyThey are all just staring at me and this is what I hate the most. The pity in their eyes. There is nothing any of us could have done differently. That much I have come to accept. The situation is what it is. The only part I seem to struggle with is the memory of sitting there, trapped, with my parents' lifeless bodies.I take a deep breath and Ryker pulls me even closer. I just noticed that he is holding me, in public, and I don’t feel uncomfortable at all.“It was more than three years ago. I’m not saying it doesn’t hurt sometimes, but I can’t play the victim forever. The nightmares have gotten better, which makes things easier for me.” I look up at Ryker as the revelation hits me. My nightmares got better when I moved here. Even at my lowest with him, they didn’t return. I wonder if he noticed the change too?“What?” He pulls back to look me full in the face.“I’m not sure.” He looks confused and I can’t blame him, but I can’t explain it either.We finish eatin
76 - RykerI have never cared before now. I shouldn’t care. But I keep my insecurities at the way she asked the question to myself. I have a bad habit of misunderstanding her intentions. I haven’t learned to read her emotions the way Bennet, and now Danny, do. I just watch her looking at me, in wonder I think. Or maybe it’s confusion, disbelief. I’m not sure. One thing I know is, I can’t stop touching her. Running my fingers through her hair, caressing her cheek, her arms, the inch of bare skin at her waist where her shirt rode up.I saved myself for my mate. It is probably the one thing that my wolf and I agreed on. We saved everything binding for our mate. I don’t regret it, can’t regret it. It was the most incredible experience for me. And it was only a kiss. Far more thrilling than my first shift or even my first kill in a fight. This woman in my arms has brought me to life. I had no idea I could feel…like this. My heart is still racing and the electricity is still flow